EE and Vodafone To Offer Free Virgin Media Wi-fi on the Underground

Virgin has announced a partnership with EE and Vodafone to give all of their customers access to free wi-fi on the London Underground.

After its 2012 launch, another 20 stations will also be wi-fi enabled in December and 28 more will come online early next year. 72 stations already provide wi-fi.

The service will be available to Virgin Media broadband and mobile subscribers, along with Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile and EE mobile customers – this represents around 76 per cent of people in Greater London – at no extra cost. The service already has 700,000 users and deliver 1m sessions every day.

Virgin Media will also launch a pay-as-you-go service in 2013, with daily, weekly and monthly passes starting from £2 per day.

Fibre connectivity to each station is being provided by Virgin Media and London Underground has installed on-platform access points to create a hotspot throughout the station. As with those stations that are already wi-fi enabled, users will be able to connect on platforms but it will not work on trains.